Donald H Taylor

I'd love to answer but I'm afraid I'm too busy raking up leaves right now.

Well, I say 'raking'. Obviously most of the time is spent planning. Then there's a lot of huffing and puffing. And a fair amount of standing with arms crossed, contemplating.

Then the raking can start.

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By cutting into known chunks:

8x27
= 2x(4x25)+(8x2)

... where everything in brackets is something you know and don't have to think about

= 2x100 +16

Reading the range of answers is really interesting!

Did it last all night long?

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC.

My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.

Dolly Parton releases “9 to 5” 45 yrs ago today.

“I knew what it was like to be a working woman trying to make a decent living, trying to be taken seriously. .. I wanted a song that sounded playful on the surface but spoke to that frustration .. A song about women .. saying, ‘We deserve better.’”

Whisky

Indeed he was! When his role required him to climb (eg in The Train) he performed with athletic grace.

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

One feature of working at the Bar is that I come across a lot of very clever people. Of course it is a chastening reminder of one’s own limits, which is a moral good. After 34 years, I have changed my understanding of what cleverness is. /1

Inventing Antifa In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters.

Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

Thanks so much, David!

Singlette is the roll. Which means ’vest’ in British English (‘undershirt‘ in the US, where ‘vest’ is ‘waistcoat’), in Turkish it would be an ’atlet‘, from the French, ’athlète’, even though the French word for a singlet is not singlette, vest, nor athlète,
but maillot or débardeur.

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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One day you'll be 60 and remember how great these years were. If you make them so.

Thank you for this uplifting thread!

I never dream during a nap but might during a kip so this is a good rule of thumb. I can't offer any advice on the kip/sleep boundary however.

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Rewatching Slow Horses from S1E1. Really stands up to a second viewing. Great writing, cast, performances.

Brits! I need your help on a linguistic issue.

What is the difference a NAP and a KIP?

For me, a nap is up to about 45 minutes. A kip is longer. But how long before it becomes a sleep?

Is the current AI boom really like the dot com boom of the turn of the millennium? Here are two magazines, 17 months apart, that tell the story of the times. In July 1999, at the peak of the dot com…... Is the current AI boom really like the dot com boom of the turn of the millennium? Here are two magazines, 17 months apart, that tell the story of the times. In July 1999, at the peak of the dot com ...

What a 25 year old magazine I found in my loft tells us about the AI boom.

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Wonderful image, wonderful sentiment. I hope the peace and stillness stay with you.

Obviously my still recovering pulse says something else. :)

The pizza was good.
The footy was torture.

Never.
Any.
Doubt.

Solid approach, Keith. I will take that advice.

Lucky shirt! She can't wash it until Sunday now....

Si!